Posts Tagged ‘adaptive learning’

The Andes Physics Tutor [1,2] is a nice piece of work. Looking at the data from the Spring 2010 physics course at the US Naval Academy [3] there are obvious challenges facing the current generation of adaptive education vendors. Most of the modeling going on today is limited to questions where a learner gets the [...]

Although a bit of a stretch, this post was inspired by the following blog post, which talks about the Facebook API in terms of learning styles. If you’re interested in such things, you are probably also aware of learning record stores and things like the Tin Can API. You need these things if you’re supporting [...]

Knewton is an interesting company providing a recommendation service for adaptive learning applications. In a recent post, Jonathon Goldman describes an algorithmic approach to generating questions. The approach focuses on improving the manual authoring of test questions (known in the educational realm as “assessment items“). It references work at Microsoft Research on the problem of [...]

As I mentioned in this post, we’re having fun layering questions and answers with explanations on top of electronic textbook content. The basic idea is to couple a graph structure of questions, answers, and explanations into the text using semantics. The trick is to do that well and automatically enough that we can deliver effective [...]